The five landform regions that make up the United States are the West, Midwest, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast regions. The states that comprise these individual regions are grouped according to their locations on the continent, as well as the major physical features and climatic conditions that are common in these areas. Continue Reading.
In 1845, America tried buying huge parts of Mexican land that included present day California and New Mexico. When Mexico refused to part with its land, America tried using force. Mexico and America both maintained that the border was theirs. This led to the beginning of the Mexican America War that would last for two years (1846-48). America won the war decisively. Mexico had to give up California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona.
The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict, and the culmination of a political and social process which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain. The war had its antecedent in Napoleon's French invasion of Spain in 1808; it extended from the Grito de Dolores by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla on September 16, 1810, to the entrance of the Army of the Three Guarantees led by AgustÃ­n de Iturbide to Mexico City on September 27, 1821. September 16 is celebrated ...